European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sidelights Ceu Alianti the Days offing Arthur with the weary remnant of his followers he Emba fiks on a Fisherman s Lugger. Down to the coast. Rid no hard. A Jaaes the King of Thule hotly pursued by his merciless enemies. Dawn finos them far Cut on the Stormy Channel. Thev seek. A Harbor along the Chalk cuffs. Of Britain. A the h41f Savage britons oppose their Landing. Storm driven they at ust each 7h& Mouth of the thames River. But Here f bunding fog Smuts Down Over the wat erf and they lose their bearings. The first episode of Prince valiant by Hal Foster shows the detailed illustrations and narrative technique he employed in his historic strip. The series runs inthe Star and stripes on sundays. _. _ _. Prince valiant remake history for 3, by Timothy Cahill new York Bureau _ horrid the Witch of the fens foretold i first in 1937, r just 10 weeks into Prince valiant first year in the comics Section the boy Prince was hit with one of those Good news bad news forecasts that make life so difficult to plan. -. A Chi the hag seeing Val s future in the embers of a peat fire describes a life of High adventure but and  k today some 57 years after horrid s Prophesy our by now Middle aged hero Marks his 3,000 episode of Prince valiant in the Days of King Arthur returning from yet another exciting quest but facing the abduction and imprisonment of his wife and youngest son. _.  no Man. Has spent More time following adventure from from pillar to Post and less time enjoy ing the comfortable pleasures of Hearth and Home than valiant Price of Thule. Three thousand funny pages ago Val washed up on he Chalky shores of Britain. So Long ago that the sunday comics we re then the saturday comics. Dur ing that time countless millions of Little kids have been entranced by the excitement thrill and exotic wonder of life in sixth Century England of chivalry. Valor and derring do of that singular haircut. The strip was created by Hal Foster a 45-year-old Illustrator from Winnipeg Canada. Foster is consid ered one of the Early geniuses of newspaper comics creating with Prince valiant an altogether new kind of strip. Foster took the writing out of Talky bal loons and turned it into narrative at the Bottom of each panel. He combined this with richly detailed drawings of the castles villages and Countryside of arthurian Camelot creating a world both visually and imaginatively int skating Foster who died into continued to write the strip until 1979, when he sold it to King features. For More than 20 years Prince valiant has been drawn by John Cullen Murphy and is now written by his son Cul Len. The elder Murphy spends three or four Days in his Connecticut studio illustrating each episode from copy his son sends from Boston where the younger is also managing editor of the. Atlantic monthly. The father draws on a wealth of sources to create Val s world which ranges from the British Isles to the Mediterranean to As far off As China and continued on Page 19 and to tuned by the awful thought what on Hayden to Aleta Prince valiant nervously awaits the birth of his first child in August 1947. Page 18 sunday August 7, 1994